Pre-Revolution

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner

Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 by Robert Middlekauff

As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution by Richard Archer

Colonies to Nation, 1763–1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene (editor)

Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty by Jon Kukla

The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan

Boston’s Massacre by Eric Hinderaker

First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory by Mitch Kachun

John Adams by David McCullough

John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp

The Boston Tea Party by Benjamin Woods Labaree